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This says everything you need to know about America. Only 19% of those under 45 could pass a very simple test on the basics of our country. We are doomed

“Respondents 65 and older scored the best (74 percent), while only 19 percent of test-takers 45 and younger passed. The survey asks about everything from important dates to historical figures and current events.”

A new poll shows that little more than a third of Americans would pass a basic multiple choice U.S. citizenship test, NBC News reported. The survey, released this month by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship…

People wonder why we have so many issues with violence in America, yet they fail to recognize that American culture is inherently violent by design.

People blame guns, “toxic masculinity”, racism, and any other phrase of the day for our issues, but the fact is America is and always has been violent.

We have been in state of perpetual warfare for decades. We have industrialized violence and it has permeated our culture and body politic. The country that slaughters innocent people around the globe can’t claim to have a non violent culture. Hollywood and the media apparatus glorify war, justify murder, and propagate violence on a daily basis. Popular culture desensitizes violence to the youth and constantly pushes the envelope on blood and gore.

A country founded on the mass genocide of native populations, a country that imported human beings to be sold and used as property, a society that erected systems to allow for the brutal exploitation of workers can not claim to be nonviolent. A country founded on murder and exploitation will be violent to its core.

Guns are most definitely a problem in this country, but our culture that glorifies violence and weaponry is the true problem. Until we as a country value human life more than weaponry, we will continue to deal with mass murder.

“Tonight, on the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration, President Trump earned an ‘F’ for failure in leadership,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said in a statement just after midnight.

It’s the first shutdown since 2013 when a Democrat, Barack Obama, was the president and Republicans controlled Congress.

“We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living–a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.”